Re: Multiple substrings = Error

From:
"Victor Bazarov" <v.Abazarov@comAcast.net>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Thu, 15 Feb 2007 13:56:28 -0500
Message-ID:
<er2act$9c9$1@news.datemas.de>
Pistolen08@gmail.com wrote:

I can not post the entire code, but here is some more.

string str = string();
string binString = string();
string flipString1 = string();
string flipString2 = string();
string flipString3 = string();
string flipString4 = string();


As suggested before, you can safely drop all those '= string()'
parts. Strings are correctly initialised without that.

string toReverse = string();


This doesn't seem relevant at all.

out << toEncrypt;


What's the content of 'toEncrypt'?

binString = out.str();


Add

    assert(binString.size() >= 8);

here

flipString1 = binString.substr(0,2);
flipString2 = binString.substr(2,2);
flipString3 = binString.substr(4,2);
flipString4 = binString.substr(6,2);

binString = flipString4 + flipString3 + flipString2 + flipString1;

cout << "after flip " << binString << endl;


If you don't want to post your actual code, it's fine with us,
but you have to realize that we're not mind readers.

If I have to guess, the error is in your 'toEncrypt' output. It
most likely does not produce long enough a string. Check the length
of 'binString'.

As a freebee, here is what your fragment should look like:

    out << toEncrypt;
    string binString = out.str();

    string flipString1 = binString.substr(0,2);
    string flipString2 = binString.substr(2,2);
    string flipString3 = binString.substr(4,2);
    string flipString4 = binString.substr(6,2);

    string binString = flipString4 + flipString3
                        + flipString2 + flipString1;

    cout << "after flip " << binString << endl;

As you hopefully see, there is *absolutely* no need to define those
variables before they are going to be given some value.

V
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